“For the Lord is good; His loving kindness is everlasting. And His faithfulness to all generations” - Psalms 100:5 (NIV)
The goodness of the Lord is one thing one needs to rely on especially when times are uncertain. This happened exactly during the sojourn of the children of Israel as they traversed through the desert from Egypt on to the promise land.
Unfortunately, as we see through many episodes in the Book of Exodus, with their faith under taste, the way seemingly unclear, it was common to let doubt take the better hold of many. So often they rebelled and took to worshiping other gods, like they did when they forced Aaron to make a golden calf to worship instead of the Almighty God who had brought them thus far. Challenged late by Moses, as to why, Aaron explained, “You know how prone these people are so evil. They said to me, “Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us out of Egypt we don’t know what has happened to him” ( Exodus 32:22-23).
This didn’t please the Lord God for which they would pay a high price.
In times as these when the economy is under hit from lockdown and incomes strained may we look up to the goodness of the Lord to sustain us through. And He certainly will.
Prayer for today: Lord father in heaven today I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that through these challenging times my faith in you may stand undiminished.
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Just before fire was unleashed down on Sodom and Gommorah, Lot was told to pack up with his wife and two daughters and leave their homestead. Now, once out of danger, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt” ( Gen 19:26). Perhaps here we might pause and ask why she was bothered to look back.
Of course it could have been that old “curiosity killed a cat” mistake! Yet, it could also have been Lot’s wife was not sure where she was going and longed for her old life back. This is a common error. There was nothing stirring to look back. Just before Lot’s neighbors had attacked his house eager to rape his visitors. “They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them” ( vv 5). Was there anything worth looking back to!
The case of Lot’s wife could be anyone else’s experience. The Lord has plucked you out of some mess. You have been delivered to a new life. Yet, somehow you decide to look back, as though there was anything good and worth longing for. Sometimes it is a bitter past you have been delivered from. Other than rejoice in your new blessings you keep being drawn back!
A wise caution goes, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly” ( Proverbs 26:11). If the Lord has just led you out of a certain mess why look back like it was much better! Instead look ahead, for “he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past” ( vv 17- 18).
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, I thank you for delivering me from the darkness of the past and I look forward to a bright new future in you, this I pray in Jesus’ name!
